Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi on Thursday supported the deployment of Western troops in Ukraine. He called it one of the “best tools” to achieve peace with Russiawrites TASR according to an AFP report.
Europe is entering a “new chapter” of cooperation and will have “new opportunities” after Donald Trump returns to the White House on January 20. The Ukrainian leader stated this in Germany at the American air base Ramstein during the meeting of the Contact Group on the defense of Ukraine. “Our goal is to find as many tools as possible to push Russia to peace,” Zelensky declared.
Deployment “partner contingents is one of the best tools”responded to the potential possibility of sending NATO troops to Ukraine. However, Zelenskyi did not specify whether he would go for sending Western troops or peacekeeping forces in the event of an end to the almost three-year conflict.
The newly elected president of the USA Donald Trump promised a quick end to the fighting and has repeatedly criticized the US military support of Kyiv to date. Acting Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced Thursday that The US will provide new aid to Ukraine in the amount of about 500 million dollars.
“It is clear that a new chapter is starting for Europe and the whole world, in 11 days. There will come a time when we must cooperate even more intensively, rely on each other even more and achieve even better results together,” said Zelensky. “I see it as an opportunity,” he assessed.
At the meeting, he also “called on” Ukrainian allies to help build Kyiv “stock of unmanned aircraft” to fight against Russian forces on and off the front. “Drones … have changed the nature of war. Unmanned aircraft scare the enemy and keep him at a distance,” said the Ukrainian head of state.
